Here's the scary, horrible, terrifying thing:
Trump's supporters do not care one bit that he is a liar, a cheat, a scumbag, a racist, a serial cheater, a misogynist, a homophobe, a possible child-rapist. They do not care that he speaks at a fourth-grade level. They do not care that he has been sued a billion times. They do not care that his shit is made in China. They do not care that he knows he can't build that wall and make Mexico pay for it. They do not care that he won't release his tax returns. They don't care that his wife posed nude. They don't care that his kids are fucked-up little lying twats. They don't care that he thinks Putin is a swell guy. They don't care that his lies are so transparently false that they are disproven before his lips stop moving. They don't care that he treats women like dirt beneath his feet. They don't care that he hasn't got one clue about foreign policy. Or domestic policy. They don't care that his businesses were built on the backs of people he cheated. They don't care that he never did one thing in the realm of public service before he decided that it would be swell to run for president. They don't care that his "fortune" was born of inheritance and tax breaks.
Do you understand?
They do not care.
And that is why this election is so horrifying. It's not that Trump thinks and says these things. It's that he does and there are so many people who simply cheer him on.
Comparisons to Hitler are not over dramatic.
And besides all of that, I'm feeling anxious and depressed and worried and like the biggest faux adult in the world.
How are you today?
you nailed it. they just do not care and there are so many of them. what the fuck has happened to this country. when did Americans turn into people who cheer the likes of Trump.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, Ellen, but I really don't care to live here any more. It's just gotten so horrid. Between the Trump thing and the way black lives obviously don't matter, I have no idea what this country is about.
DeleteI'm terrified, too. And horrified. Sickened. The worst thing isn't the fact that Trump's running, it's that so many people gleefully support him.
ReplyDeleteYeah. All of that.
DeleteI'm horrified, too! Not just because 'some' people, but some people in my own family are joining in the lock step bullshit! Yeah, in the beginning he said some stuff that sounded like America just needs to get tough. But now he's saying stuff that will get our country nuked within a week of his taking office!
ReplyDeleteHave you talked to these family members? What is their rationale?
DeleteSo even if Trump doesn't get elected, we're still screwed because he's awakened the beast.
ReplyDeleteYep.
DeleteI am exactly where you are. Still in bed.
ReplyDeleteWhat can we do? What in hell can we do? Suddenly, we are living in a different country and it's not one I recognize.
DeleteI have the exact same thoughts about Trump and his followers. The fact that he exists is horrifying and then add to that the fact that his existence has shown us what is out there in his followers and I am a ball of nerves.
ReplyDeleteExactly? Have these people just been hiding their true feelings all this time? Frankly, that was better than the way it is now. Not much. But a little.
DeleteUrg. You are so right :(
ReplyDeleteI'm equally faux adult today.
I'm always a faux adult.
DeleteI keep wondering when this country went off the rails. When Trump first announced, I figured he would not make it through the primaries, and then he did. It's just a nightmare.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone can believe it. Probably even him although who knows about that?
DeleteWhat Marty said.
ReplyDeleteyep
DeleteWhat do we do? WHAT DO WE DO?
DeleteI have been saying since the beginning that Trump is like Hitler. We say there will never be another holocaust. I used to agree. Now I am not so sure.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. He's way too much like Hitler. Even the people who used to say that this was an improper comparison are changing their minds.
DeleteAlas, this is true. It's scary enough that people cheer him on, but I'm also frightened by the huge numbers of people who are willing to overlook all those flaws, believing that they're a put-on or a facade obscuring the TRUE genius businessman underneath. Because that genius businessman ISN'T THERE.
ReplyDeleteIt is horrifying! I just hope there are enough of us to keep this monster out of office. Gail
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